Wrestling fans in North Wales were given a boost today after finding out one of the sports' biggest legends would still be heading to the region - despite being 'put under pressure' to cancel his appearance there.

Foley is known to hundreds of thousands of fans across the world as Mankind from the WWE, report the Daily Post.

And despite numerous flare ups in the ring, the 53 year-old today revealed that he had been embroiled in a battle to visit North Wales.

American Foley is due to be appear at Wales Comic Con which takes place in Wrexham every year.

However he almost dealt his Welsh fans a potential KO today when a revealed that a rival fan convention had tried to get him to cancel his appearance.

On Twitter he claimed that organisers of Comic Con Scotland - which takes place in November - had tried to get him to "cancel" his appearance of Wales Comic Con after they cited a "conflict" in him attending both events.

However, Foley said he threw that proposal out of the ring and instead cancelled his appearance at the convention in Edinburgh.

He also took a cheeky swipe at the Scottish events' promoter - publishing a map showing the distance between both locations and highlighting the fact that one is "FIVE HUNDRED KILOMETERS" away from the other.

Fans wasted little time in reacting to Foley's post. One said: "I apologies (sic) on behalf of the city of Edinburgh I find I have to do that a lot these days."